OMG! I was looking through the running tournaments, and I just found a backgammon tournament that's been running for 8 years. It has 7 point matches with the doubling cube. Just thought I'd share.

thechosen0ne: It is always the server time - GMT+01:00 (or 02:00 when daylight saving time is active).

Aganju:
I guess that answers my question! It just wasn't clear how it worked and I thought my vacation days were being used up on those days regardless. What time zone counts as those days? Your local time, the time you specified, or Brainking time?

thechosen0ne: I don't understand your question?
You cannot time out during your weekend days, but of course your time does count down. Once it reaches 0 (or 0 to -9 exactly), the time demon gives you a free hour, which is like vacation, but doesn't use any.
So what did you mean??

thechosen0ne: I think you'll find it was an added option because a lot of people were taking the total time before they moved. If you're timing out then it is working for the people who wish to play fast games.

What exactly is the point of weekend days if my time can still go down to <1 hour on games without a green or red dot, meaning I can still time out!? I set my weekend days to Monday and Wednesday.

rod03801: lol I did that about three times

chessmate.home: but you can just change your name in this account. That might do it?

chessmate.home: An account can't be deleted, as there are games attached to the account, of course. (and all games can be looked back at, etc.). The best thing to do is just make the new account and stop using this one.

hi, i want delete my account and create another one, it is possible?

Aganju: thank you... now I send a game to you... to play 1 or 2 games..thanks...

ustica tnp:
a) it has to be activated when the tournament is created (otherwise it will not be used)
b) the player needs to activate it in his settings (check under Settings/GameFilter/Autopass which is brainking.com/en/settings?p=3&sup=2 )

hi. how player uses autopass.. in backgammon?

ketchuplover: It is esay to click on languages by mistake. Perhaps that is what happened with you.

I saw non-english languages on the boards. I haven't noticed it before now.

And this one too from 2007 Spring Fling Ludo Tournament 2007

Whats up with this tournament from 2007?
Spring Fling 2007

MadMonkey: hmmm that didnt work then :(

*ph:2019:15600*

Aganju: thank you :)

Bernice: I set up some loooong matches so I wouldn't need to start new games for a while.
Open Pente (Thad vs. Cheri)
Open Pente (Thad vs. JackS)

Aganju: or "Fixed Weekends only"

Chimera: *All* your games.
Except the ones that say 'No Vacation'.

coan.net: Does it only add the hour to the game that has timed out? Or does that hour get added to all games where it is your turn?

skipinnz: I couldn't say that, my post would have been deleted AHAHAHAHA

Bernice: put another way Fencer might have been far to busy to fix it. LOL

Thad: it cant have been too much "worthwhile" if you haven't noticed it gone and it has been, for over a year LOL

Do we know why it disappeared? It was a worthwhile option to me!

furbster: It hasn't been there for over a year

Thad: I wondered the same thing a few weeks back! Strange.

What happened to the option when starting a new game to prevent a player already playing a game with you from grabbing more games from the waiting area?

bert515: Today is bad for me.

thechosen0ne: Correct.
But it is not the only page that needs updating, and probably not the most important one...

Aganju:
Thanks! So I guess if non-paying members get the automatic vacation as well, the premium membership details page needs to be updated. Currently it says that only paid members get automatic vacation.

thechosen0ne: the vacation system was changed a while ago, and the whole flag has no meaning anymore.
Everybody's vacation works the same way, and there is nothing you have to do (or could do).
As was explained, whenever the first game runs out, all games get an extra hour, and your vacation time is reduced by an hour. Also you have two 'weekend days' which by default are Sat and Sun, but you can modify them. On those days, you do not use up vacation at all, its free.
If you have enough vacation left, you don't need to do anything, just go in vacation. If you have not enough left, nothing you can do.

The difference for non-paying and paying members is the total amount of vacation you get on Jan/1: Black rooks get 40 days (this means 8 weeks, as only five days a week are needed - see 'weekend' above), and non-paying get (I think) 10 days = 2 weeks. No roll-overs, just everybody gets reset on Jan/1 to his current membership's amount.
I hope that helps you!

Oh, and about the -2 minutes: The timer demon comes around every ten minutes. Until then, the remaining time just keeps counting, so might end up with it showing up to -9 minutes. That does not matter to you, the timer demon applies your vacation (as explained above) before it times you out.It's the same program, so it can't happen the wrong way around.

thechosen0nesame way you would:

happyjuggler0 coan.net: Thanks for clarifying, but it does bring up the question for free members: Does their ability to use vacation days differ from paid members in that they must postpone for a fixed amount of time? How does a free member use their 10 vacation days?

thechosen0ne: I guess I should have looked at your profile before posting. You have the automatic vacation turned on.

Imagine that you run out of time in a game that does not have a green dot (no vacation time allowed) or a red dot (no vacation time allowed; also no "weekend days" allowed). What happens is that you lose an hour of your vacation time, but all of your non-dot games also gain an hour of time left to play.

Once you run out of vacation time, then the next time you run out of time in a game you lose that game.

thechosen0ne: I just look at my own profile when I need to see how much vacation time I have left.

For you, it has:

Vacation days left: 24 days 22 hours - using the automatic vacation

What happens now is when a game runs out of time, it adds an hour to the game and takes 1 hour at a time away from your vacation time.

happyjuggler0:
I did check the box that says "Activate automatic vacation", but it doesn't seem to do anything as the time for my games can still go to -2 mins.

There's also the problem of not being able to see how many vacations days I have left. Also how do I postpone my games for a set number of days? Is this feature only available for free members?

thechosen0ne: On the left side of the site there is a column of links.

1) Click "Settings".
2) Click the "Calendar" tab on the top of that page.
3) Check the box near the top of the calendar page. Then go to the bottom and click "save and finish".
4) Check your profile to make sure it worked.

How do I activate my vacation flag!?!? There doesn't seem to be any way to do this!

this site is getting to be damned ridiculous.. was running fine for about 1/2 an hour then all of a sudden every other move go to white pages again!!! Where is Fencer????

Pretty poor for me right now.

Oh well.....impossible to move.....back to my reading.

Bernice: Lol it must alternate between us.

crosseyed: mine is good now :) makes for a change LOL

Bernice: This morning it was working well, but tonight it is slow and the white pages keeps appearing.

I found it slow a couple of hours ago, but running smoothly now.

Bernice: no problem at all